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Roxana Condurache

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Roxana Maria Condurache was born on August 28th, 1987, in Iasi, Romania. She had a beautiful childhood and was interested in arts from a young age.

In 2007 she started school in Bucuresti. Even from the first year of study, she was chosen to work on two plays – a collaboration with The Mask Theatre for the play named “The Actors”. Then, Javier Opazo, a director from Berlin who came to make a play in Romania offered her a role in “Pulse”. After this experience, Roxana Condurache thought it was the time to learn how to entertain people in a more happier way, so she accepted a small role in a comedy : the musical “The Gurton’s Needle”, at the Mask Theatre. She had to prepare for 3 months for this show, taking singing and dancing classes with Razvan Diaconu (composer) and Ioana Macarie (choreograph).

In 2009 she played the role of a witness of the tragedy of Hiroshima. Again, she chose to portrait the life of a person who lived only to know pain and suffering. The play was called “Cries for Peace”, was directed by Liana Cetechi and was held at the “Theatre for The Few”, in Bucuresti. During this year, she also had a role in the play called “The Fear and Misery of the Third Reich” written by Bertold Brecht, and directed by Razvan Marinescu. The play won the best directing price in the festival called “Theatre for The Young Festival” held in Piatra Neamt, Romania. Same year, she was cast by Andrei Elvadeanu, a young director, for the leading role of his short film “Extracharged”.

2009 was a very important one for Roxana Condurache. That’s when she was discovered by Larysa Kondracki and offered a very important role in the movie “The Whisleblower”, starring great names such as Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci and Nikolaj Lie. Kaas. The movie will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this year.

In 2010 she was cast for the leading role of another short-film, called “For Mona”, directed by Alexandra Baila, and had a small role in Mihail Radinoiu’s short-film “Closed Thread”. Same year, she received the opportunity to star in a video directed by Christian Loubeck. The video was made for the song “Unbelievable”, of a New York band called The Sleepy Rebels, which will be seen by the public in autumn.

This year was a busy one for Roxana Condurache. She received the role of Titania, in a Shakespearian play “The Midsummer Night’s Dream”, directed by Cristian Toma. The group of young actors traveled a lot in Romania to promote the play and in autumn they will continue touring in Romania and even abroad. Now, Roxana Condurache decided that she will focus more on acting in movies and is looking forward to a great carrier, who knows, maybe in Hollywood. "

(excerpt from "Interview with Roxana Condurache" on http://monicabelluccifan.com/)

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